Re: Hard Drive Speed

[Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com>]

Todd Simi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know this may be a silly question since it probably a hardware limitation,
> but I'm running F7 and would like to know what I can do to increase the hard
> drive seek time, if anything.
> 
> I have a pretty new SATA drive at 3GB/sec and it seems to have to seek longer
> than I'd expect.

FWIW, the SATA spec is 3Gbits/sec and I believe that hdparm is reporting
MBytes/sec.

> 
> It's running with DMA4, AHCI, etc.
> 
> The rest is an ASUS MB with a Core 2 Duo 6400 @ 2.4 Mhz & 2GB Ram @ 800Mhz.
> 
> Are there any setting from the standard that by help?
> 
> here's the hdparm output
> 
> [root localhost ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing cached reads:   8608 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4313.28 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  202 MB in  3.02 seconds =  66.79 MB/sec